It means building a sense of civic pride from zones one to six, so that no one feels like their area is a secondary concern to the bright lights of the city centre.
A group focused on protecting civilians in conflict zones, Civic, urged the administration to take additional steps, including conditioning weapons sales to foreign partner militaries on enhancing civilian protections and creating a permanent compensation fund for families of civilians killed.
On a deeper level, Watch Dogs aims to flag up the perils of data centralisation, such as Rio de Janeiro's 2016 Smart Cities pledge, which feeds off citizen-sourced data and occupies a perilous zone between civic empowerment and Orwellian control.
This will require highly publicized meetings with all stakeholders: parents, teachers and civic leaders in all zones of the district.
A consistent theme was that a green belt should be "a healthful zone of pleasure, civic interest and enlightenment", or "a great communal estate – secure for all time to the use and enjoyment of the people of London", or should "protect its inhabitants from disease, by providing fresh air, fresh fruit and vegetables, space for recreation and contact with and knowledge of nature".
Optimists see a new network of powerful, stable and prosperous city states, each bigger than many small countries, where the benefits of urban living, the relative ease of delivering basic services compared to rural zones and new civic identities combine to raise living standards for billions.
Somehow, despite their big money, big entertainment, big cafes-and-gift-shops reality, big cultural institutions have been given a pass to operate at ground zero in a mode that many thought was lost: as fonts of enlightenment, zones of transcendence, civic temples.
It took a really costly but comprehensive programme in Brazil called Pronasci to tie up a lot of elements that were drivers of violence in the country, building local frameworks, gun-free zones and fostering civic culture to reduce violence, which has been the case in Bogotá, Medellín in Colombia and Santa Tecla in El Salvador.
The exchanges are intended to connect community peace builders in conflict zones -- activists, civic leaders and even government officials -- with accessible tech platforms and like-minded partners who can help them transform their ideas into reality.
Governments -- left-leaning or right -- are beginning to swap out thirsty civic plantings for water-saving ones, re-zone future development, cut back on heat-creating paving, and reclaim rainwater and gray water.
